SKU: M7.ELLI-4140
Composed by Glen Velez.
CD. CD with 20-page
booklet. Duration 58'.
Intuition #ELLI 4140.
Published by Intuition
(M7.ELLI-4140).
ISBN
9781559613163. UPC:
052296414023.
A
melting pot of rhythms,
melodies and sonic
textures that promises to
be as upöifting to the
general listener as it is
challenging to the
musicians who endeavor to
dissect its complex
rhythms. A work of poetic
beauty. Four frame drums,
trombone and violin.
Inspired by ancient frame
drumming traditions, Glen
Velez and Handance create
a pan-global rhythmic
style drawing on the
music of South India, the
Middle East, and Central
Asia. Rhythmcolor Exotica
explores the terrains
created by rhythmic
cycles of 4,5,7 and even
41 beats. This inventive
urban drum clan dazzles
with its virtuosity, and
with the playful melodic
inventions of Art Baron
on trombone. Add in
tinwhistle, didgeridoo,
shaker and conch and you
have a one-of-a kind
trancy, jazzy,
border-crossing
celebration. The frame
drums played on
Rhythmcolor Exotica
include Moroccan bendir,
North African mazhar and
tar, Egyptian riq, and
Celtic bodhrán with
Arthur Baron, Jan
Hagiwara, Eva Atsalis,
Yousif Sheronick.
